I acquired a phone off craigslist that wont boot. I was pretty sure I could fix it. I can get the bootloader and battery status to come up but the phone isn't recognized by adb or rsd. In my car, when I plug it in it auto turns on but only to the logo. Volume keys will not put me in the recovery mode.

There was a trick a few tried and I did those, power and home till logo, but logo only comes on if it is plugged in to the car...sometimes the comp.

When I plug to the comp the screen stays off and the green light comes on. I did do the camera volume power and it comes up and says battery low cannot program and bootloader 30.04. The thing is that the battery may be low but Verizon put in a good battery and it wouldn't power on for them.

I acquired a phone off craigslist that wont boot. I was pretty sure I could fix it. I can get the bootloader and battery status to come up but the phone isn't recognized by adb or rsd. In my car, when I plug it in it auto turns on but only to the logo. Volume keys will not put me in the recovery mode.

There was a trick a few tried and I did those, power and home till logo, but logo only comes on if it is plugged in to the car...sometimes the comp.

When I plug to the comp the screen stays off and the green light comes on. I did do the camera volume power and it comes up and says battery low cannot program and bootloader 30.04. The thing is that the battery may be low but Verizon put in a good battery and it wouldn't power on for them.

Any ideas?

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If you can charge the battery somehow you could try flashing an sbf. Can't get you a link right now because I'm on my phone but Google "how to sbf droid x" and you'll find a guide.

If you can charge the battery somehow you could try flashing an sbf. Can't get you a link right now because I'm on my phone but Google "how to sbf droid x" and you'll find a guide.

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will it not charge the battery from the wall with the battery in? and the phone never shows in the comp so I cant flash an sbf i thought...i can buy another battery and an external charger but I am not sure that this is the issue since verizon tried a good battery and the guy used his wifes droid x2 battery with not change...just wont boot past logo...guy didnt seem to know anything about flashing so i doubt he bricked it...im somewhat familiar with this phone, was running miui and liberty on my husbands and a friend of ours...

why when i plug up the phone does it show the logo? no battery meter...

will it not charge the battery from the wall with the battery in? and the phone never shows in the comp so I cant flash an sbf i thought...i can buy another battery and an external charger but I am not sure that this is the issue since verizon tried a good battery and the guy used his wifes droid x2 battery with not change...just wont boot past logo...guy didnt seem to know anything about flashing so i doubt he bricked it...im somewhat familiar with this phone, was running miui and liberty on my husbands and a friend of ours...

why when i plug up the phone does it show the logo? no battery meter...

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You can't charge the battery unless you can boot into the OS. You flash the sbf from the bootloader so if you can get the battery charged you can flash it.

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Ok, after some searching, I'm thinging its possible that I went too far back in sbf files. being I bought this phone broken, I didn't know what version software it was on. I had a DROID x before and simply went back to the version I knew worked with a rom we used before.

I am going to try the 612 version...blindly...I wish someone was able to tell me if there was another way

Did you SBF .621 using RSD Lite? After a successful SBF you need to do a factory reset to get the phone to boot. From a powered off state hold Home and Power until you get a screen with an Android and a triangle. At that screen press both volume keys simultaneously. Then perform the factory reset. Use volume keys to scroll and Power to select.

I have tried to do that a hundred times...its either my buttons are broke or there is no factory recovery anymore...it absolutely won't go there to do it...I have asked and looked for a way to do it through adb but the phone never gets recognized ...it doesn't say device not found...it just stays blank...attached devices and blank

My x did this the night before the Bionic came out. I tried everything, couldn't get into recovery either. I sent it to MOTO under factory warranty, and they sent me a new phone, which I sold to help pay for the Bionic.

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